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Old 09-27-2014, 11:34 AM
 
Location: Stockholm
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Not anywhere near that size, but Lillehammer, Norway

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Old 09-27-2014, 06:50 PM
 
Location: University City, Philadelphia
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Sheffield - a city 'built on seven hills'. Like Pittsburgh, it has a history of steel making, and they share the same nickname - the Steel City. Metro population 1.6 million.
Good call! I know Sheffield because one of my best friends lives in nearby Barnsley.

I once asked some European friends what city in Europe was most like my city of Philadelphia (post industrial, working class, and yet historic, cultural and full of fine architecture)? The answer: Glasgow!!!
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Old 09-28-2014, 06:00 AM
 
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I once asked some European friends what city in Europe was most like my city of Philadelphia (post industrial, working class, and yet historic, cultural and full of fine architecture)? The answer: Glasgow!!!
Good call, that.
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Old 09-28-2014, 10:53 AM
 
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I'm trying to see if any Polish cities fit that mold. Pittsburgh does have some Eastern European influence.
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Old 09-28-2014, 11:57 AM
 
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Pittsburgh has quite a lot of people of Polish extraction, but I fail to see how that is supposed to affect the architecture or the general look of the city. By that same token Atlanta should look like Africa.
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Old 09-28-2014, 04:41 PM
 
Location: inside your head
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I think Pittsburgh is somehow unique and you won't find many comparable European cities because Europe is generally quite flat (compared to Appalachia, that is). But if I had to pick one I'd choose Ostrava - just as Pittsburgh it is a steel city and it is located in Silesian Beskid mountains. My hometown - Rybnik - is also quite hilly and a coal-mining center but it is much smaller (circa 0.5 million in metropolitan area).
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Old 09-28-2014, 09:23 PM
 
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Pittsburgh has quite a lot of people of Polish extraction, but I fail to see how that is supposed to affect the architecture or the general look of the city. By that same token Atlanta should look like Africa.
I'm not talking about the look of the architecture. I'm talking about the culture. And I don't expect Atlanta to be that much like Africa at all.
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Old 09-28-2014, 09:24 PM
 
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I think Pittsburgh is somehow unique and you won't find many comparable European cities because Europe is generally quite flat (compared to Appalachia, that is). But if I had to pick one I'd choose Ostrava - just as Pittsburgh it is a steel city and it is located in Silesian Beskid mountains. My hometown - Rybnik - is also quite hilly and a coal-mining center but it is much smaller (circa 0.5 million in metropolitan area).
Considering what you have said, Katowice would be an even better choice. That is a city that grew because of steel. It is located around a mountain range, near reserves of coal, and has transitioned into a services/white collar economy.
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Old 09-29-2014, 03:14 PM
 
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Considering what you have said, Katowice would be an even better choice. That is a city that grew because of steel. It is located around a mountain range, near reserves of coal, and has transitioned into a services/white collar economy.
I think Katowice may be too flat. If you've been to Pittsburgh you know the difference between a city that has been built around hills (there are thousands of such cities) and a city where hills are an integral part of the identity of the city (such as Pittsburgh, parts of SF, parts of Seattle, and by the looks of this thread, Sheffield, Sarajevo, Liège).
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Old 09-29-2014, 03:46 PM
 
Location: Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne
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I think Katowice may be too flat. If you've been to Pittsburgh you know the difference between a city that has been built around hills (there are thousands of such cities) and a city where hills are an integral part of the identity of the city (such as Pittsburgh, parts of SF, parts of Seattle, and by the looks of this thread, Sheffield, Sarajevo, Liège).
And Bergen, Norway.
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